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Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"2¢worth" |
| Date: |
26 Jul 2003 11:37:25 PM |
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Incompetency and lying have become a hallmark of 911 & Iraq. |
N. Korea hasn't been setting idly by as it watches the Bush administration
pre-emptively invade a sovereign country on far from convincing evidence.
There is no love lost for Kim Jong Il or Saddam but the fact is Iraq wasn't
a threat to U.S. security and N. Korea was on the verge of a peaceful
reunification with S. Korea before Bush occupied the Whitehouse.
Add this to their deceit and stonewalling on the global warming issue, tax
cuts for the rich, mishandling of the economy, ad infinitum and you have
untold suffering and tragedy knocking on the door.
The competency of the Bush administration is no longer something to titter
and poke fun at, its incompetency and deceitfulness have put the U.S. and
the world in a perilous and deadly situation.
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Iraq Flap Shakes Rice's Image
Controversy Stirs Questions of Reports Unread, Statements Contradicted
By Dana Milbank and Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, July 27, 2003
Just weeks ago, Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national security
adviser, made a trip to the Middle East that was widely seen as advancing
the peace process. There was speculation that she would be a likely choice
for secretary of state, and hopes among Republicans that she could become
governor of California and even, someday, president.
But she has since become enmeshed in the controversy over the
administration's use of intelligence about Iraq's weapons in the run-up to
war. She has been made to appear out of the loop by colleagues' claims that
she did not read or recall vital pieces of intelligence. And she has made
statements about U.S. intelligence on Iraq that have been contradicted by
facts that later emerged.
The remarks by Rice and her associates raise two uncomfortable possibilities
for the national security adviser. Either she missed or overlooked numerous
warnings from intelligence agencies seeking to put caveats on claims about
Iraq's nuclear weapons program, or she made public claims that she knew to
be false.
Most prominent is her claim that the White House had not heard about CIA
doubts about an allegation that Iraq sought uranium in Africa before the
charge landed in Bush's State of the Union address on Jan. 28; in fact, her
National Security Council staff received two memos doubting the claim and a
phone call from CIA Director George J. Tenet months before the speech.
Various other of Rice's public characterizations of intelligence documents
and agencies' positions have been similarly cast into doubt.
"If Condi didn't know the exact state of intel on Saddam's nuclear programs
.. . . she wasn't doing her job," said Brookings Institution foreign policy
specialist Michael E. O'Hanlon. "This was foreign policy priority number one
for the administration last summer, so the claim that someone else should
have done her homework for her is unconvincing."
[cont.]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51224-2003Jul26.html
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Asked for the first time about the (Iraq) uranium issue,
Bush said: "There's going to be a lot of attempts to rewrite history."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=584&ncid=584&e=1&u=/nm/20030
709/pl_nm/iraq_bush_dc
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